Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-05

J If Puente. He is sired by Judge Sal
I, lsbury he by Nutwood ;dam Rowland'f
Nellie, by A. w. Richmond. He il
only a yearling. and gentle as kitten,
and goes in 20 seconds already or a
8 :56 gait. The colt is beauty. The same
Owners show pair of Richmond stall
lions, father and son, aged 6 and 8
years respectively. They are H. NJ.
Johnston stock; sire, A. w. Richmond
dam, Susie Hill; inbred stock and
they show it.
Messrs. Thayer and Conavan show
eight standard grade horses, seven of
them Richmonds and one Del Sur.
They are all fine animals and show
what Downey alfalfa will do in the
way of horscfesh.
THE RACES.
At half-past one O'Clock General
Sanford, of Santa Fe Springs, called
the first race, trot. There weta only
| two entries for the trial, Mr.. j. H.
Dunning and Mr.. J. ID. Denman.
They got off we'll together on the first
start, and Dunning's white stocking
hor,ts 1T once TOOK the lead, which he
l,orso nenf to tbe finish. Denman's bay
vent went into nj R the a.. = every quarter OF
mile. At the end o. the beat Ss the
horses were retired and their '''ee'
taken by two Santa Ana horses,
dark brown, owned by Mr.. Kennedy,
and bright bay, the property OF MIR.
FELTON,. The first attempt was a go
again, the bay taking the lead. 1t
was pretty close race during the first
half mile, the two going nearly side
by side all the way. At the three
quarter stake they were going almost
neck and neck. The dark horse in
the home stretch made a good dasi,,
for victory, but the bay reached too
far and passed first under the wire,
taking first money, Dunning's horse
second and Kennedy's third.
JUDGE DAVIS
Was here introduced by Gen. Sanford,
and he delivered the opening address
of the Fair. Senator l.. j. Rose had
been invited to deliver the address,
but at the last moment Mr.. Rose was
called away to San Francisco, and
Judge Davis was selected to take his
place. The Judge paid a merited COM
liment to Mr.. Rose, stating that the
senator had last winter obtained an
appropriation of $1,000 from the state
to aid the fair. He also referred in
few very feeling remarks to the death
OF Mr.. Tierce, whose accidental death
happened yesterday, particulars Of
which appeared in the HERALD yes
terday. The speaker announced that
at O'Clock to-day the funeral would
take place, the fair adjourned to at
tend it.
Judge Davis then reviewed the his
tory Of the fair. The grounds bought
four years ago for $2500 are to-day
worth $4,000. The stock is proper
tionately increased in value. He re-
ferred to the great display of fruit,
vegetables, herds of Durhams, Hol-
stems, Jerseys, horses, etc. The crazy
quilts the girls of Downey make to
make the young "men crazy" was the
next subject, and the bread and cake
made of homemade flour, and by the
hands of Downey's fair girls. The
babies of the country came in
for much comment-of course
com planetary in character, first, be-
cause the babies of Downey deserve a
compliment, and second, because
their mammas were out in great force
to take vengeance on any who spoke
otherwise than complimentary of
young Downey.
Judge Davis speech was listened
to with great pleasure by large
crowd of people from the neighborhood
who had gathered onto the grand
stand.
RUNNERS.
A running race followed, in which
three horses started. Hicky, of
Santa Ana, owned one and Pedro
Lugo owned the others. The horses
were being saddled for the race when
the hands of time, which waits for
nothing, admonished the reporter
that it was time to get to the depot if
he wished to catch the train and get
his scraps OF news to the office for
the paper. This prevented him from
learning the result Of the contest.
To-DAY's PROGRAMME.
The programme for to-day is as fol-
lows:
1OA. M.-Grand parade of all stock
entered for exhibition.
IL M.-Judges OF machinery, do
mestic manufactures, fine arts, fruits,
flowers and farm products will begin
examination of exhibits.
2 P. M.-Trotting race for three.
year-olds that have not been named
in race in 1887; purse, $50; $50 to
first, $40 to second, $40 to third.
80 P. M.-Running race, free to
all; one-half mile and repeat; purse,
$50; $50 to first, $40 to second.